Past Events

Take part in this interactive data science activity with your class and use real data to investigate how renewable energy could reduce your school’s carbon footprint.

Find out more about the Digital and Data Champions Edinburgh Award at this first information session (University of Edinburgh Initial Teacher Education students only)

Join our data science team as we return once again to help stop a gang of rhino poachers. This session is designed for class teachers to bring their (P7-S4) learners to or for individuals to log in and play along.

Create your own abstract data-driven selfie Join our data science team to create a data-driven piece of digital art about the person you know best: you.

Have you ever pondered the pond life in your area, chewed over the challenges of plastic in the oceans, or ruminated on robotics for river cleaning?

Save the rhino with data science Data Skills Live: Defend The Rhino 🦏

Find out how to use Data Nation with your learners. Data Nation has been developed by EDINA, a centre for digital expertise at The University of Edinburgh, and combines official 2011 census data with contemporary and historical mapping.

Use data visualisation software to create an abstract drawing based on data you choose to share.

Dr Lyndsay Grant will draw on the ethnography of a secondary school, showing how educational data practices worked to predict, anticipate and intervene in pupils’ futures.

This session will look at how to ask questions about your community using existing Scottish census datasets.

We look forward to welcoming Dr Annika Wolff, LUT University, on 24th March, 1-2pm.

This event took place on 25th February 2021.